THIS IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT HOW HBO NEEDS TO MAYBE NOT HAVE SO MANY BOOBS IN ITS SHOWS. 1. I think the author needs to calm down already. Personally, and as a woman no less, I think gratuitous nudity is much less harmful than gratuitous violence and am constantly dismayed at how much our culture disagrees. 2. (It’s not television) It’s HBO. Of course there are boobs.Considering our ever-loosening standards for obscene language on network and basic cable channels and the absolute lack of standards for violence anywhere, nudity is the last taboo that premium channels have in their arsenal, duh. 3. This article calls to mind this unintentionally hilarious (and just generally TERRIBLE) New York Times review of Game of Thrones in which the author managed to not only insult female fantasy fans, but also get things so incredibly WRONG when she wrote: “The imagined historical universe of “Game of Thrones” gives license for unhindered bed-jumping — here sibling intimacy is hardly confined to emotional exchange … The true perversion, though, is the sense you get that all of this illicitness has been tossed in as a little something for the ladies, out of a justifiable fear, perhaps, that no woman alive would watch otherwise.” This led to an ongoing private joke between Mr. T and myself when any boobs appeared on Game of Thrones that the directors were throwing them in for my benefit. “A little something for the ladies.” Indeed. And I hope you enjoyed our little boob conversation, because that’s the last we’ll have here on Tubular for a while. Happy Fourth of July!

WATCH THIS

Freedom Over Texas: Avoid the heat and crowds and watch Houston’s Fourth of July celebration from the comfort of your own home. Performances by Jack Ingram, Chris Young and Rodney Atkins. 7 p.m., ABC

A Capitol Fourth: Our nation’s capitol celebrates the Fourth on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol with performances by Josh Groban, Little Richard, Steve Martin, Matthew Morrison, Kelli O’Hara, Jordin Sparks and the National Symphony Orchestra. 7 p.m., PBS